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TIL That All the Restaurants Featured on Diners, Drives-ins, & Dives Experienced a Permanent Boost in Business with Donatelli's in Minnesota being saved from Going out of Business

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86kP TIL The Pennsylvania Dutch aren’t actually Dutch, they are German. Upon arrival, they were saying “Deutsch” which is German for, well, German. Germany in the their native language is “Deutschland.” English speaking Americans just assumed they were saying “Dutch.”
4XvVN TIL "Night Witches" were women that flew under the cover of darkness in bare-boned plywood biplanes to bomb the Nazis during WW2.
BrOGy TIL Nike factory workers in Vietnam earn $0.61 to $0.89 Per Hour with women making up 80% of the workforce there
kJkkg TIL, Judith Love Cohen,mother of Jack Black,was part of the team that created the Abort-Guidance System that rescued the Apollo 13 astronauts.She was working on problems with schematics on the day she went into labor,called her boss to let him know she had fixed the problem, and then delivered Jack.
DyDg TIL for 3 decades legendary female pro wrestler The Fabulous Moolah effectively controlled most of the female wrestling in the US, would allegedly sexually and financially exploit the women she managed, and sabotaged any female wrestler who could pose the threat of taking her place professionally.